Free to Make: How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds - Softcover

Dale Dougherty; Ariane Conrad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1623170745 ISBN 13: 9781623170745

Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S., 2016

Synopsis

Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: Magazine and the Maker Faire, takes readers on a guided international tour of the spectacular phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how things are made, where things are made, and who gets to make them. Unlike other books about contemporary making, which have detailed the implications for business and industry, Free to Make explores how making impacts our personal and social development--our ability to learn, to thrive, and to work with purpose and dignity. Dougherty explains how we are moving away from one-size-fits-all, passive consumption and command-and-control models of education and business, and instead embracing our freedom to participate. With full-color illustrations that capture the inventors and craftspeople of all ages, this book invites readers to see themselves as creators, builders, and shapers of the world around them.

About this title

About the Author

Dale Dougherty is the publisher of the O'Reilly Network and Director of O'Reilly Research. Dale has been instrumental in many of O'Reilly's most important efforts, including founding O'Reilly & Associates with Tim O'Reilly. He was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial Web site. Dale was developer and publisher of Web Review, the online magazine for Web designers, and he was O'Reilly & Associates' first editor. Dale has written and edited numerous books at O'Reilly & Associates. Dougherty is a Lecturer in the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California at Berkeley.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. For everything Tim, see tim.oreilly.com.

Ariane Conrad is an editor and writer living in San Francisco. She is the coauthor of "The Green-Collar Economy" by Van Jones.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1623170745
• ISBN 13: 9781623170745
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250